Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Oxford University Press
BBB Library: Technology and Globalization
ISBN: 978-0195102864
In a brilliant conclusion drawing together the threat of nuclear blackmail, global warming and the growing commodification of life represented by video games, voice mail, and VCRs, Visions of the Future issues a call to face the challenges of the twenty-first century with a new resolve strengthened by the inspiration of our collective past.
Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? is his visionary reckoning with the most urgent economic and social trend of our age: the poisonous concentration of money and power in our digital networks.
The global financial crisis has already inspired over a thousand books, not to mention myriad articles, blogs, and other commentary. Some are simply expressions of anger. Others document the hole we find ourselves in or perform forensics on how we nearly buried ourselves alive. Fewer focus on what is to be
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004, what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events
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